> the US is the only country, rich or not, that regularly experiences school mass shootings. So there must be some other factors at play A few other sociologic

> the US is the only country, rich or not, that regularly experiences school mass shootings. So there must be some other factors at play A few other sociological factors to consider given that the phenomenon of school shootings in the US has established itself in the past 50 years.[1] The US population has doubled since 1950[2]; this means an increase in the (unaddressed) need for adequate health care and especially mental health care. Domestic US gun business has grown its profits in this period of population growth. And, of course, the US is one of the few countries with a constitutional guarantee to protect its gun business, which results in political gamesmanship in a time of profits, instead of real social policy. [1][a] _ https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Number-of-mass-school-shootings-and-deaths-from-1940-early-2018_fig2_324617091 https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Number-of-mass-school-sh... [1][b] _ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_shootings_in_the_United_States_(before_2000) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_shootings_in_th... [1][c] _ https://www.chds.us/sssc/data-map/ https://www.chds.us/sssc/data-map/ [2] _ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_history_of_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_history_of_the_Uni...